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Summer Record Review: Proms Composer - Max Reger With Andrew McGregor. Including Proms Composer: Max Reger.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Record Review, Early Modern period, 2nd millennium, Modern history, German...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07syffv
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Song of Myself Reading of Whitman's poem Song of Myself, with excerpts from Orson Welles's 1953 version.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Family law, Musical groups from Los Angeles, California,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770h0v
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Andromache By Jean Racine. With Tanya Moodie as Andromache and Joel MacCormack as Orestes.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Trojans, Greek mythology, Marriage, American post-grunge musical...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bbghs
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It's Not Dark Yet Texts and music centring on how artists articulate tragedy and the human spirit.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Words and Music, Creator gods, Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music, Men,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07y9qy5
Why Music? The Key to Memory Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests on the theme of memory and jazz.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Jazz Record Requests, Columbia Records artists, Capitol Records artists, RCA...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097s92r
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Choral Vespers live from the London Oratory Choral Vespers for Ember Wednesday live from the Church of the London Oratory.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Choral Evensong, Civil parishes in Somerset, American rock music groups,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094t14k
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1977 Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for films from 1977.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Sound of Cinema, Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rfy0k
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Andrew McGregor with Sarah Lenton and Tom McKinney Andrew McGregor and guests review the best recordings of classical music.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Record Review, Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music, Commanders of...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rfy0b
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Breaking Free - the minds that changed music Tom Service discusses the legacy of the Second Viennese School.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Music Matters, Types of musical groups, Classical period (music), 2nd...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087q1x3
Beatrice Rana and Benjamin Appl in Bach and Schubert Penny Gore presents a new programme featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, New Generation Artists, Genealogy
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096yhg1
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Things Might Change or Cease Linda Marshall Griffiths's drama about estranged sisters on a journey to find their father
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019m11n
UA Fanthorpe Ian McMillan introduces an archive radio broadcast from 2000 by poet UA Fanthorpe.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Three Score and Ten
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083qrgt
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Alfredo Rodriguez at the Gateshead Jazz Festival Kevin LeGendre presents Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez at 2017's Gateshead Jazz Festival.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Jazz Line-Up, American jazz pianists, Kennedy Center honorees, American jazz...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rfy0q
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Finlandia The psyche of Jean Sibelius, his music and a Finnish epic, starring Tim Pigott-Smith.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Republics, Christianity, Liberal democracies, Member states of the...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r49bf
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2017 Jools Holland pays tribute to Stax Records with original stars.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, BBC Proms, Stax Records artists, American male singers, Booker T. & the...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092km5c
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Friday - Sarah Walker with Chris Watson Artist of the Week: Anne Sofie von Otter, featured in Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Essential Classics
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08r2x95
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Macbeth A new production of Shakespeare's dark tragedy about ambition for power.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Best Drama Picture Golden Globe winners, Thoroughbred racehorses,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vh239
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In search of Proust's Music Music and readings from Marcel Proust's life and novel of memory, In Search of Lost Time.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Music and Memory, Existentialist concepts, Marcel Proust, The Football League...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0980lxc
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Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) Donald Macleod focuses on Rubbra's final years. With Veni Creator Spiritus.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week, Classical period (music), Types of musical groups,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vwqjq
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The Mother Gina McKee stars in Florian Zeller's award-winning companion piece to The Father.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Syndromes, Motherhood, Beds, Rooms, Prefectures in France,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094sd4k
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Featuring one of the string quartets that caused Haydn to declare Mozart 'the greatest'.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093p7wt
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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Donald Macleod introduces Grieg's great song cycle written for his wife Nina.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week, Calendars, Geography terminology, Theatre
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0902z4f
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Violin sonatas by Beethoven and Guillaume Lekeu John Shea presents a recital of violin sonatas by Beethoven and Guillaume Lekeu.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Through the Night
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07myqxr
Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) Donald Macleod discusses Chevalier de Saint-Georges' wager with the Prince of Wales.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week, Monthly magazines, Princes, Wales, Thoroughbred...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088jhby
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Between the Essays Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime explore a parasitic relationship.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, The Essay, Brain, Building materials, Organs, Developmental biology, Textile...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0833yq3
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold Matthew Sweet with music reflecting the film career of Erich Korngold.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Sound of Cinema, Warner Bros. contract players, Deaths from myocardial...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ny5cp
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Donald focuses on the premiere of Schumann's melancholy Manfred Overture.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week, Fairies, Folklore, Orchestras, Types of musical groups,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mdjlb
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2017 The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, BBC Proms, Abraham Lincoln, Harvard University alumni, Historical documents,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092jwtc
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Topics: Radio Program, Musical trios, Communism in Russia, Types of musical groups, Russian Revolution,...
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Building a Library: Elgar: Falstaff With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Elgar: Falstaff.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Record Review, Symphony orchestras, Orchestras, Sports rules and regulations,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07y9nl8
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Donald Macleod investigates the role of Verdi's operas in Italy's fight for independence.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f680z
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Ted Hughes Archive broadcasts by Ted Hughes: part of The Captain's Speech and also The Mackerel Song.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Three Score and Ten, Commercial fish, Harvest, Horticulture and gardening,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z7b7m
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Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea performed by La Venexiana conducted by Davide Pozzi
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Opera on 3, American rock music groups, Musical groups from Los Angeles,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0965q50
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BBC New Generation Artists in Schumann Soprano Fatma Said sings Schumann's seldom-heard 7 Songs.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, New Generation Artists
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081t4xl
2017 Queen's Hall Series Chiaroscuro Quartet led by international soloist Alina Ibragimova perform on gut strings.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Edinburgh International Festival, Types of musical groups, Classical period...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090vsw2
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Series on Puccini's heroines spotlights La Boheme's Mimi and Musetta.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week, Culture in Berlin, Theatre, Spanish masculine given...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098hrbq
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Topics: Radio Program, English composers, Types of musical groups, Cherries, Prunus, Flowers, Plants,...
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British Film Comedians Columnist and historian Simon Heffer discusses the life and work of actor Alastair Sim.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, The Essay, Social classes, English stage actors, Emotion, English radio actors,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qfqfm
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Breaking Free: A Patriot for Me An adaptation of John Osborne's landmark play, which was originally banned in 1965.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Tobacciana, Containers, Fashion accessories, Middle Ages, Love,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xq4rq
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Bebop Pop Geoffrey Smith explores the pop side of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, American jazz composers, Manor Records artists, RCA...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8p3j
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Monday - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra The BBC SSO performs music by Chisholm, Beethoven, Ravel, Barber and Vaughan Williams.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Afternoon on 3, Composers for piano, Types of organization, Orchestras,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ndx47
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2017 The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra perform an all-Mendelssohn programme at the Proms.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, BBC Proms
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093m73r
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The Meaning of Trees Fiona Stafford discusses the cherry tree, prized in many ways, but also in sharp decline.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, The Essay, Flowers, Medicinal plants, Flora of Japan, Plants, Religious belief...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vh8sy
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Islands Kenneth Steven on Raasay, an island close to Skye and once home to poet Sorley MacLean.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, The Essay, Emotion, Family, Men, Feeling, Language, Personal life, Emotions,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vws2g
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Landmark: Leaves of Grass Poets Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan and Professor Sarah Churchwell on Walt Whitman's poem.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Free Thinking, American poetry collections, English-language writers, American...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06flptj
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Topics: Radio Program, Ballet venues, American jazz composers, Broadcasting, Meteorology, Nightclubs in New...
Chopin and his Europe 2017 Nelson Freire plays Schumann and Chopin at Warsaw's Chopin and His Europe Festival.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098sc96
Peter Moore, Benjamin Grosvenor in Duparc and Ravel Peter Moore and Benjamin Grosvenor feature in a programme of French music.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, New Generation Artists, American rock guitarists, Arts, Rooms
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097882k
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2016 Georgia Mann presents informal music and poetry. With all-female jazz band Nerija.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, BBC Proms, Types of musical groups, Singers from New York City, Concepts in...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tq947
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The Visa Affair Drama based on Joe Orton's interrogation at the American embassy in London in 1965.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, English women writers, English novelists, Alexandria, Library...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07y9qyd
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Monday - Sarah Walker with Zoe Wanamaker Artist of the Week: pianist Jorge Bolet, featured in Liszt's Annees de pelerinage (Suisse)
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Essential Classics, Types of musical groups, Classical period (music), Légion...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rg58y
Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2016/17 Chamber music by Büsser, Beethoven and Quantz from the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Types of musical groups, Classical period (music),...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ndzbs
The Armida Quartet play Mozart's String Quartet, K387 The Armida Quartet play Mozart's String Quartet in G, K387.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, New Generation Artists, Harrach family, Joseph Haydn
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094hfft
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Michael Giacchino Matthew Sweet with Hollywood composer Michael Giacchino.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Sound of Cinema, American composers, University of Southern California alumni,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095zmzx
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Sound Frontiers: HG Wells As the 2016 London Literature Festival opens, Matthew Sweet chairs an HG Wells discussion.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Free Thinking, British writers, English-language writers, Modernist women...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xhyd9
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Aurora Orchestra - Richard Ayres and Brahms Nicholas Collon conducts Aurora Orchestra in music by Richard Ayres and Brahms.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Radio 3 in Concert, Oil Campaign of World War II, Semiotics, Theatre, Masculine...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08t18jv
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Sophie Bevan and Sebastian Wybrew Live from Wigmore Hall in London, soprano Sophie Bevan gives an all-English song recital.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, English Anglicans, Law, Types of musical groups,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09491j2
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840: New Music for Piano New music for piano, including works by Kate Moore, Laurence Crane and Bryn Harrison.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Hear and Now, London sub regions, Lutheranism, Human behavior, Portrait art,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091w89r
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Vivien Duffield Michael Berkeley's guest is arts philanthropist Vivien Duffield.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Private Passions, Dresses, Sewing, American sopranos, Family, Marriage,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090lm22
Queen Mary's Big Belly Lucie Skeaping with music surrounding Queen Mary I's 'phantom pregnancy' of 1555.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, The Early Music Show, English Roman Catholics, Renaissance composers, Christian...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096g5l9
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Topics: Radio Program, Eroge, Performing arts, Orchestras, Men, Family, Hindi words and phrases
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The Piano Lesson August Wilson's play about a brother and sister and a piano carved with African faces.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Christian iconography, Jesus, God, Megafauna, Gospel episodes,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017lz81
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Memory Texts and music on the theme of memory, with readings by Tom Hiddleston and Eleanor Bron.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Words and Music, Philosophical terminology, Musical trios, Mind, Theology,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052zwd4
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Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier directs Vox Luminis in a performance of music by Purcell, Locke and Blow.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Early Music Late, Royal Peculiars, Coronation, Types of musical groups, Member...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tz134
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Topics: Radio Program, Orchestras, Types of musical groups, Musical trios, Performing arts, Laundry,...
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Topics: Radio Program, Characters in the Aeneid, Calendars, Characters in the Iliad
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Topics: Radio Program, James Joyce
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Topics: Radio Program, Political science, Political whips, Officers of the Order of the British Empire, UK...
Manchester Chamber Concerts Society 2015/16 Music by Britten, Gershwin and Moeran from the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mwnn3
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The Physicists By Friedrich Durrenmatt. Classic European 1960s farce about three deluded scientists.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Drama on 3, Legal professions, Political terminology, National security,...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pyfr9
Sound Frontiers: London Sinfonietta - Coll, Coult, Davies, Birtwistle The London Sinfonietta in music by Francisco Coll, Tom Coult, Tansy Davies and Birtwistle.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Radio 3 in Concert, Festival of Britain, Members of the Parliament of England...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wrlbr
Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) Donald Macleod focuses on Chevalier de Saint-Georges' arrival in Paris.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Composer of the Week, Caribbean islands, Caribbean, Classical period (music),...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088jc2q